PSYC 3265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Suggestibility, Explicit Memory, Autobiographical Memory
11 May 2016
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The earliest memories of children between age 5 9 were from about 1 years on average and for young adults it was 2 years and for adults 3 years. The reason being is because the boundaries of childhood amnesia is flexible, and secondly it has become forgotten over years. Traditional model assumes that infants during first year are only capable of implicit memory for perceptual and motor skills and not explicit memory because of the maturation of the hippocampus. Ecological model believes the basic memory processes do not change with increasing age, instead what infants learn differs from what is learned by older children. During the first several months of life they cannot move, as a result they are good at associating whatever they see together as nonselective fashion and up to the age of 8 months they experience a period of rapid learning.
